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Camilla

Fanny Burney

Book Overview:

This is the story of Camilla, her beloved but selfish brother Lionel, her sisters Eugenia and Lavinia, and their extremely beautiful but thoughtless cousin Indiana on the months proceeding their marriages. Camilla is deeply in love with Edgar and he loves her back. However, on the advice of a friend, decides to make sure that she is free of fault. She has the luck to find herself in lot of uncomplimentary and comic situations which doesn't make Edgar's wish easy. Meanwhile, Camilla, on the advice of her father, is trying to make sure that Edgar really loves her before marrying him. Will they marry at the end? And will her sisters and cousin be happy? If you want to know the answers to these questions, and many more, please read the book.

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Book Excerpt:

. . .oon to be done; the dispersion from the meadow
having been made in every possible direction.
CHAPTER XI
Two Lovers

Indiana, intent but upon running on, had nearly reached the church-yard,
without hearkening to one word of the expostulating Mandlebert; when,
leaning over a tombstone, on which she had herself leant while waiting
for the carriage, she perceived the young Oxonian. An instinctive spirit
of coquetry made her now increase her pace; he heard the rustling of
female approach, and looked up: her beauty, heightened by her flight,
which animated her complexion, while it displayed her fine form, seemed
more than ever celestial to the enamoured student; who darted forward
from an impulse of irresistible surprise. 'O Heaven!' she cried, panting
and stopping as he met her; 'I shall die! I shall die!—I am pursued by
a mad bull!'

Edgar would have explained, that all was safe; but Melmond neither heard
nor saw him.—'O, give me, the. . . Read More

Community Reviews

4.00

- Kate - Jan 16, 2010

I'd really like to give it three and a half...I'm torn. Lots of great Dickens-esque characters and the provision of a real understanding of the perils of women during the time period push it to four. The social commentary is important and something so alien to us now that it's definitely worth re...more

2.00

- Suzanne - Dec 03, 2012

Probably the longest book I've ever read, other than the Bible. It took me over a year of stops and starts to get through it! I'd have to say it was fun reading parts aloud … full of fancy wording of the Victorian era. Reminded me of a soap opera. Camilla,her sister Eugenia, and cousin Indiana we...more

3.00

- Virginia - Jan 20, 2009

I loved (really loved) the writing in Camilla. Yes, even the sentences that stretched, it seemed, for paracraphs. Like other similar literature, I loved many of the themes of honor (or "honour" ;-) and duty and family. I liked Camilla and LOVED Eugenia. I also despised Lionel and Indiana and the...more

3.00

- Karin - Oct 09, 2018

Camilla is a romance par extraordinaire with a great deal of insight into the lives and times of the upper class women in the late 18th century and some nearly perilous excitement at times, but a romance nevertheless, so 3 stars from me as I'm not a huge romance fan. Camilla loves Edgar, but as f...more

4.00

- Ginger - Aug 22, 2018

Holy mama, I think that I deserve a cookie after reading this bad boy. I don't know why this novel felt so long to me, because I really enjoyed it for the most part, but it is nearly 1,000 pages, so you can only have so many excursions and letters before they all start to feel the same (in a way,...more

3.00

- Emilia - Jun 03, 2017

3.5 stars

Unlike Evelina, Camilla is not a comedy of errors, or a comedy of manners. It is over long (my edition has 913 pages) and it's point isn't immediately apparent. I enjoyed the beginning, which was, though slow, full of fun character moments, and it's set in one of my favourite periods, an...more

2.00

- Staffan - Dec 14, 2015

It has been hard work, but at last I have finished Camilla. This story of Camilla and Edgar who love each other but take 900 pages of unnecessary misunderstandings to reach the happy end proceeds with no regard for psychological probability, and the endless silliness of the impossibly noble chara...more

4.00

- Mirela - Sep 05, 2015

I'm a sucker for classical English authors, always tempted to rate them with non-existing 6* just for this reason. Burney's colofurness and vivacity in painting of the society's traits would deserve it as well. In real life, a book needs to whack me off my "verbal feet" to give it even a 5*-ratin...more

2.00

- Melindam - Jul 19, 2019

As an Austen fan and having read Northanger Abbey where Fanny Burney's Camilla is mentioned, I thought I'll give the book a try. Although it proved quite enjoyable for a time, after 500 pages and countless misunderstandings later, where the MCs, Camilla & Edgar, almost seem to make it just to...more

3.00

- Lori - May 10, 2007

I am not enjoying this book as much as I enjoyed The Female Quixote, which was really, really funny, but I'm trying to keep an open mind.

Burney, was an 18th century novelist who influenced Jane Austen, and if you read this book, you can see how. However, you can also see, if you read, that Auste...more